TWO extra evacuation flights carrying British nationals have left Sudan, as UK efforts now turn to diplomacy and humanitarian aid.…
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SUDAN’s warring rivals have agreed to send representatives for negotiations, potentially in Saudi Arabia, the United Nations’ special representative in…
PORT Sudan is rapidly becoming a crucial hub in the midst of Sudan’s violence. The BBC’s Chief International Correspondent Lyse…
AROUND 2,000 people have arrived in Saudi Arabia’s coastal city of Jeddah, after being evacuated amid chaotic scenes from Port…
A FAMILY fleeing Sudan say they are among thousands stuck at the border with Egypt because drivers are demanding $40,000…
AN ATTACK on a military base in eastern Burkina Faso has killed 33 soldiers and wounded 12 others in the…
A ZIMBABWEAN court on Friday sentenced an opposition politician to four years in prison for inciting public violence over a…
ONE of Sudan’s duelling generals, who leads the paramilitary force fighting the country’s army, has told the BBC he will…
RIVAL factions of Sudan’s military have agreed to renew a three-day ceasefire, shortly before it was due to expire. The…
AN innocent man who was sentenced to death following the 2011 murder of a British tourist has had his conviction…
FIGHTING is continuing in parts of Sudan despite a 72-hour ceasefire largely holding. Speaking via phone from Omdurman, the city…
AT least 55 migrants have been killed when their Europe-bound dinghy sank off the coast of Libya, the UN’s migration…
EVERYONE finds selling on the streets the easiest way to survive, but you have to be creative.” Noel Ngwenya, 44,…
A SECOND evacuation flight rescuing UK nationals from war-torn Sudan has landed in Cyprus. The passengers and a further 39…
ETHOPIAN Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Sunday said his government had opened talks with Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), a rebel…
IN the middle of a forest not far from Kenya’s coast, piles of fresh earth topped with crucifixes await the…
THE United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that Sudan’s warring generals had agreed to a three-day ceasefire starting…
BURUNDI’s justice ministry has confirmed that the country’s former prime minister, Alain Guillaume Bunyoni, is in police custody following reports…
KENYAN police said Sunday they had found the bodies of another 26 suspected cult members in the east of the…
MORE than 150 people from various nations reached the safety of Saudi Arabia Saturday in the first announced evacuation of…